Xenophora cummulans
No picture of Xenophora cummulans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xenophora cummulans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- XenophoraPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Xenophoridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Xenophoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Xenophoridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya.
14 occurrences of Xenophora cummulans on record, most of them in the Oligocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
14 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
8 formations
- Gheldeis Formation · Hafún Group4
- Ghibirti Formation · Hafún Group2
- Sables a Nummulites variolarius Formation1
- Qom Formation1
- Eptachorion Formation1
- Karkar Formation1
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The named rock units Xenophora cummulans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Xenophora cummulans and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Xenophora cummulans and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
480 taxa- Conus diversiformis4 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica4 sites
- Melongena4 sites
- Rimella fissurella4 sites
- Ampullina3 sites
- Arca biangula3 sites
- Barbatia3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata3 sites
- Bayania3 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 sites
- Chama calcarata3 sites
- Chama fimbriata3 sites
- Clavilithes3 sites
- Collonia3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Cryptoconus3 sites
- Diastoma3 sites
- Gigantostrea gigantica3 sites
- Glycymeris pulvinata3 sites
- Haustator imbricataria3 sites
- Ispharina sulcifera3 sites
- Loxocardium obliquum3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Xenophora cummulans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi)7
- Five shallow benthic mollusc faunas from the Upper Eocene (Baron, Priabona, Garoowe, Nanggulan, Takashima)3
- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)2
- Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]1
- Faune des Sables a Nummulites Variolarius de Barisseuse, pres de Saint-Vast-les-Mello (Oise), et Remarques Paleontologiques1
Each of the 14 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Xenophora cummulans was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Xenophora cummulans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Xenophora cummulans was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itXenophora through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1823)